I've had several talks with my guy.
Day before yesterday, we started a nearly whole house remodel - kitchen moves and doubles in size, great room gets new architectural ceiling and new, larger fireplace, master bath gutted and reconfigured, laundry moving across the house, bonus room and bath added above the 3-car garage, dual head mini split for bonus and garage, hot tub, 100 amp subpanel in bonus room, 100 amp subpanel between hot tub and mini split.
We didn't do the demo, so there are some unknown wires hanging throughout - like 25 of them
He's been wiring since 1984 and seemed overwhelmed with the scope
So I figured bite-sized chunks are best.
Fireplace was first on the list.
The entire area is gutted down to studs.
90s-era house which already had previous remodel.
There was a 14/2 coming through the floor, not long enough to reach anything.
In the fireplace "nook" were 2 receptacle boxes in a 14/2 circuit running from a 2-gang switch box on the left side of fp, to a receptacle on the right side of fp. So that whole cable needs to come out and get replaced without receps in the fp opening.
The cable coming through the floor needs to be extended with an "in wall" splice kit and feed a switch for fp, then 14/3 from sw to fp.
I thought 1-1/2 to 2 hrs.
t took him 7 hours.
I like the guy, but this seems to mark his day, every day. I'm paying him $30 per hour, which is fair around these parts. But most days I'm paying him more than I'm charging because he's so slow